IMO’s project to improve safety and environmental standards in Bangladesh’s ship-recycling industry is making good progress, according to the project’s governing bodies, which met recently in Dhaka, Bangladesh (13 December). The safe and environmentally sound ship recycling in Bangladesh (SENSREC) project is executed and implemented by IMO and funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). The project was launched in April and aims to improve safety and environmental standards within the industry. The Project Steering Committee and Executive Committee met under the chairmanship of Mr Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary, Ministry of Industries of Bangladesh and IMO’s Jose Matheickal, respectively.